Christopher Crater

Christopher Crater is our guest preacher this week. He currently serves as the Community Engagement Associate for the Obama Foundation in Chicago.

Christopher preached from Matthew 5:14-16.

Music & Worship Acknowledgements

Prelude in C
Composed by JS Bach, 1722

“I Sing the Mighty Power of God”
Text: Isaac Watts, Divine and Moral Songs for Children, 1715; Music: Gesangbuch der Herzogl, 1784; harmonized William H Monk, Appendix to Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1868

“Great Is Thy Faithfulness”
Text: Thomas O Chisholm, Songs of Salvation and Service, 1923; Music: William M Runyan, Songs of Salvation and Service, 1923; ©1923, renewed 1951, Hope Publishing Company; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Be Still and Know”
Text: Psalm 46:10; Music: anon.; arr. Jack Schrader, 1988; ©1989 Hope Publishing Company; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Alleluia”
Text: Hebrew traditional, ca. 4th c. BC; translit. Greek, ca. 3rd c. BC; Music: Orthodox Liturgy, ca. 1900

“Goodnight”
From the album Intervention by Helen Jane Long, released 2012

“The Lord Lift You Up”
Text: Patricia J Shelly; Music: Patricia J Shelly; arr. Dennis Friesen-Carper; ©1983 Patricia J Shelly; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“The Town I Loved So Well”
Written by Phil Coulter, 1973

Benediction adapted from A Franciscan Benediction

Rev. Dr. Dominique Robinson

FMC’s Black History Month Guest Preacher Series continues with Rev. Dr. Dominique Robinson, Dean of Chapel and Assistant Professor of Religion at Wiley College in Marshall TX.

Rev. Dr. Robinson preached from 1 Peter 3:8-9.

Today’s Music and Worship Resources:

“Uyai mose (Come All You People)”
Text: Shona; Alexander Gondo; transc. And English paraphrase I-to Loh, 1986; Music: Alexander Gondo; arr. John Bell, ©1994 WGRG, Iona Community (admin. GIA Publications); All rights reserved.; Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Longing for Light”
Text & Music: Bernadette Farrell; ©1993 OCP Publications; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

Call to Worship: Today’s call to worship was originally posted at the Sacred Pauses blog (www.sacredpauses.com).

“As I Went Down to the River to Pray”
Text & Music: African American spiritual; Arrangement: James E Clemens ©2004

“My Hope Is Built”
Text: Edward Mote, ca. 1834, Hymns of Praise: A New Selection of Gospel Hymns, 1836, alt.; Music: William B Bradbury, 1863, Devotional Hymn and Tune Book, 1864; Public Domain

“Lift Every Voice and Sing”
Text: James W Johnson, 1900; Music: J Rosamund Johnson, 1905; Public Domain

Rev. Dr. Khalia Williams

FMC’s Black History Month Guest Preacher Series continues with Rev. Dr. Khalia Williams, Assistant Dean of Worship and Music, and Assistant Professor in the Practice of Worship at Candler School of Theology, Emory University.

Rev. Dr. Williams preached from 1 Kings 19:9-18.

Today’s Music:

“O Prince of Peace”
Text & Music: Javanese; Saptojoadi (Indonesia); Text trans: Lawrence M Yoder, Mennonite World Conference International Songbook, 1990; ©1978 Mennonite World Conference; All rights reserved.; Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“This Is My Song”
Text: stanzas 1, 2 Lloyd Stone, ©1934, 1962 Lorenz Publishing Company; stanza 3 Georgia Harkness, ©1964 Lorenz Publishing Company; Music: Jean Sibelius, 1899; arr. The Hymnal, ©1933, 1961 Presbyterian Board of Christian Education; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Bless the Lord, My Soul”
Text: based on Psalm 103:1, Taizé Community; Music: Jacques Berthier; ©1998 Les Presses de Taizé (admin GIA Publications, Inc.); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Open, Lord, My Inward Ear”
Text: Charles Wesley, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1742; Music: Bradley P Lehman, ©1991 Bradley P Lehman; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Oh Freedom”
African American Spiritual

“God Loves All His Many People”
Text: Tshiluba; Lubunda Mukungu (present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo); trans. Rev. Anna Juhnke, International Songbook, ©1978, 1990 Mennonite World Conference; Music: Tshiluba traditional, International Songbook, Mennonite World Conference, 1978; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

Abby Endashaw

FMC’s Black History Month Guest Preacher Series starts with Abby Endashaw, Young Adult Programs Coordinator for Mennonite Central Committee Central States.

Abby preached from John 2:13-22.

Today’s Music:

“O Great Spirit”
Text & Music: adapt. Doreen Clellamin, from a song by Nuxalk young people; Music transcribed by Pablo Sosa; ©1994 Doreen Clellamin

“Herr, füll mich neu (Fill Me Anew)”
Text & Music: German- Jesus-Bruderschaft, Gnadenthal; ©1978 Jesus-Bruderschaft e.V., Gnadenthal, Germany; Music harm. Klaus Heizmann, 2004; harm. © Haus der Musik, Wiesbaden, Germany; Text translation and translation copyright ©2006 Jean Janzen, Kenneth Nafziger, and Randall Spaulding; All rights reserved.; Translation reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE #A-731084

“Abana alathi (Abana in Heaven)”
Text: Arabic; based on Matthew 6:9-31; Laila Constantine; trans. and adapt. Anne Emile Zaki, Emily Brink, and Greg Scheer, trans. and adapt. ©2008 Faith Alive Christian Resources; Music: Laila Constantine; ©2002 Songs of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Egypt (admin. Faith Alive Christian Resources); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE #A-731084

“God Welcomes All / Amen”
Text: John L Bell; Music: South African traditional; transcribed by John L Bell; ©2008 WGRG, Iona Community (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE #A-731084

“Hallelujah!”
African American Spiritual; arr. EP Smeltzer
Performed by the Spirituals Project Choir at Celebration Hall, 2006

“Rise, Shine For Thy Light is a Comin’”
African American Spiritual; arr. EP Smeltzer
Performed by the Spirituals Project Choir at Celebration Hall, 2006